Notable quotations

The sentence and inflection of the week has been "damn it....." and "damn it,  sucks when I wear the wrong color."  The first time it caught me off guard.   Besides the word damn it...I  can't remember the rest of her sentence.  I immediately demanded to know where she heard that.  Anyway, she didn't know and I told her if I heard it again there would be some unpleasant consequence

Then today she tried sentence #2 with Daddy.  I think the combination of damn it and sucks really caught us off guard!    I don't know how Olav managed to keep a straight face.  Tonight we had a little talk about those words and how to convey feelings without using those types of words....too bad this is only the beginning.  While talking about it she asked me what the worst bad word was....I told her she would learn that someday.  She begged me to tell her...promising not to tell anyone else...NOT!

Fun Days!

Lily has been having a lot of fun this fall!  This past Friday, Lily went to work with me, since Maryland schools were closed to students due to the MSTA convention.  Anyway on our way to an appt. Lily and I stopped briefly into an Old Navy.  While there Lily had to use the restroom.  I figured while she was using the bathroom, it would be a perfect opportunity to try on some of the t-shirts I had grabbed from the clearance shelf.  Many of them had the Old Navy logo on them.  As I am trying them on, Lily says to me, "Mommy does that say, Old Lady?".  LOL.  The things that come out of kid's mouths!

In other news, we had a super fun weekend with our friends the Murphy's and the Henry's.  We did Graver Farm on Saturday and today we did Lily's 1st ever 5K.  The Color Run down in National Harbor!  What a blast it was.  Even Ashton participated as I ran, walked, and jogged with him in the stroller!  Lily did really well!  The race just flew by!  You didn't even realize you were going 3.2 miles.  Towards the end, Lily started to complain about her leg hurting, so she rode in the stroller with Ashton for about 1/4 mile and then she was recovered and ready to run. 

The pictures at the end really tell the story!  I absolutely love them!

High Flyer

Last night we had Lily's parent-teacher conference with her 1st grade teacher Ms. Riner.  Ms. Riner describes Lily as her angel and one of her high flyers!  Academically she is doing very well.  She is reading on level 14, which puts her about 3 quarters ahead of her grade level.  In Math, she can count up to 110 without errors, even though she only has to be able to count up to 70 to be on grade level.  She appears to love school and is doing well socially as well!  Her teacher did report that she had to move Lily's seat because she was such a social butterfly but that she has lots of friends and seems to interact very well with her peers.  She asked us to work on Lily's writing (placing letters on the line properly) and spelling stretching and sounding out words to spell)  as she knows Lily can do it, she just needs some coaching/encouragement to take the time to do it correctly.  Needless to say, we are super proud of our HIGH FLYER!!!!!  Way to go Lily.  You make your mommy and daddy super proud!